NASA/GSFC XMM GOF
XMM Status Report #15
15 September 1999
XMM Sails the Atlantic
>From the ESA WWW pages
"13 Sep 1999 - ESA's X-ray space observatory has left Europe for its
French Guiana launch site. XMM, nicknamed the 'Black Beauty' by the
team and engineers who have built it, sailed from Rotterdam on
Sunday 12 September aboard the Arianespace 'MN Toucan'."
For the full text of the article please see:
http://sci.esa.int/missions/newsitem.cfm?TypeID=20&ContentID=6611
Cheers,
Steve Snowden for the XMM User Support Group